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[name] => Chamchika Mosque
[post_id] => 3617
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Chamchika Mosque is a very old and beautiful mosque which was made by copying chamchika mosque in India. This is near the Khania dighi, also called Khania Dighi Masjid. Chamchika Mosque is located in Shahabazpur Upazila of Chapai Nawabganj.
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[name] => Tengor Shahi Jame Mosque
[post_id] => 8140
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Tengor Shahi Jame Mosque is a single-domed square shaped mosque and built entirely of brick.Through the analysis of An Arabic inscription, originally fixed over the central archway of eastern wall, can now be found fixed to an enclosure wall of a nearby newly built mosque, locally known as Pashchimpada masjid (mosque). According to the inscription, the Rikabi Bazar Mosque was built by one Malik Abdullah Miah, son of Amin Khan Fakir Miah, in 1569 AD during the reign of Sultan sulaiman karrani.
The walls of this mosque are about 2.13m thick.There were four corner-towers in the four exterior angles of the building, but these were removed at the time of renovation work. The mosque has five arched-doorways, three in the east and one each on the north and south sides. The north and south doors are now used as windows. All the arches are of the two-centered pointed variety. The central archway in the east is bigger than the flanking ones. Corresponding to the three eastern archways there are three renovated semi-circular mihrabs inside the qibla wall that are set within rectangular frames. Like the central doorway, the central mihrab is bigger than its flanking counterparts. The north and south walls have two alcoves on either side of the archway. The square prayer hall of the mosque is covered with a large brick shouldered dome, which rests on the four blocked arches over the central mihrab and the three axial doorways springing from the brick pilasters, two inside each wall, in combination with Bengali pendentives and half-domed squinches on the upper angles.
Architectural Features: Architectural features of this mosque include massive walls, a large dome, two-centered pointed archways and a dome supported by blocked arches springing from brick pilanters in combination with pendentive and half-domed squinches. These are very feature similar to the Goaldi Mosque in sonargaon and baba saleh’s mosque in Bandar, both in narayanganj district
An octagonal drum can be seen externally in the lower part of the dome. The parapets and the inner side of the dome is decorated with rows of blind merlons, and each rectangular frame of the three mihrabs is crowned by a frieze of blind merlons. These are not original ornamentations. The outer walls of the mosque were once ornamented with terracotta plaques, but now these are all missing. The mosque is at present covered with cement plaster.
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[post_id] => 5104
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Shah Mahmud Masjid is an attractive building at Egarosindur may be dated sometime around 1680 AD. The mosque stands at the back of a slightly raised platform, which is enclosed by a low wall with a gateway consists of an oblong structure with do-chala roof. The mosque proper is a square structure, 5.79m a side in the inside, and is emphasized with octagonal towers on the four exteriors angles. All these towers shooting high above the roof and terminating in solid kiosks with cupolas, were originally crowned with kalasa finials, still intact in the southern one. The western wall accommodates inside three mihrab –the central one semi –octagonal and the side ones rectangular. The central doorway and central mihrab are larger than their flanking counterparts. The mosque has four axially projected front ones, each corresponding to the centrally located doorways and the central mihrab. The parapets and cornices are horizontal in the usual Mughal fashion.
All the mihrabs are enriched with terracotta decoration. The mihrabs are arched having cuspings in their outer faces. The pilasters, supporting the mihrab arches, show a series of decorated bands topped by a frieze of petals. The spandrels of these arches, though now plain must have been originally enriched with terracotta plaques. Above the rectangular frame of the central mihrab there is a row of arched-niches filled with varieties of small trees containing flowers. The mosque should specially be noted for its four axially projected frontons with bordering ornamental turrets, a device which must have been borrowed from the four axial iwan-type gateways of the Persian influenced north Indian Mughal standard mosques of Fathpur, Agra and Delhi.
The mosque has a very large dome at the top. Four corners of the mosque are having octagonal columns and the middle of the walls are having eight small columns (each wall two). The Shah Mahmud mosque has stylish terracotta at the eastern wall. Also it has expensive (considering that period) decoration at the top of the walls, columns and mini-minarets.
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এগারোসিন্দুর গ্রামে অবস্থিত অন্যতম আকর্ষণীয় এই স্থাপনাটি সম্ভবত ১৬৮০ সালের দিকে নির্মিত হয়েছিল। একটি উঁচু প্লাটফর্মের পেছনে অবস্থিত এই মসজিদটি নিচু দেয়াল দিয়ে ঘেরাও করা হয়েছে। মসজিদে ঢোকার ফটকটি আয়াতক্ষেত্রাকার এবং এটিতে দোচালা ছাদ রয়েছে। ছাদের উপর চার কোণায় অষ্টভুজ চারটি টাওয়ারসহ বর্গাক্ষেত্রাকার এই মসজিদের ভেতরের প্রতিটি দিকের দৈর্ঘ্য ৫.৭৯ মিটার। মসজিদের টাওয়ারগুলোতে ছোট কক্ষ ছিল এবং টাওয়ারগুলো অলংকার দিয়ে সাজানো হয়েছিল। দক্ষিন দিকের টাওয়ারে এখনও সেসব অলংকারের দেখা মেলে। মসজিদের পশ্চিম দেয়ালে তিনটি মিহরাব আছে যেগুলোর মধ্যে মাঝের মিহরাবটি অষ্টভুজ আকারের এবং বাকি পাশের দুটি মিহরাব বর্গক্ষেত্রাকার। মসজিদের মাঝখানের মিহরাব এবং দরজাটি অন্যান্য মিহরাব ও দরজাগুলোর চেয়ে আকারে বড়। মসজিদের প্রাচীর এবং কার্নিশগুলো মুঘল স্থাপত্যের মত সমান্তরাল।
মসজিদের ধনুকাকারের মিহরাবসমূহে টেরাকোটার নকশা করা রয়েছে। মসজিদের মিহরাবের সাথেকার প্রতিটি কলামে পাতা এবং শৃঙ্খলের নকশা রয়েছে এবং ধনুকাকার মিহরাব এবং ছাদের সংযোগস্থলে একসময় টেরাকোটার ফলক ছিল বলে বোঝা যায়। এখানকার মাঝখানের মিহরাবের উপরে বিভিন্ন ফুল সমেত ছোট গাছের নকশা রয়েছে। মসজিদের সম্মুখভাগের চারটি চূড়ার নকশার উত্তর ভারতের ফতেহপুর, আগ্রা এবং দিল্লির মুঘল আমলের মসজিদগুলোর পারস্য নকশার সাথে মিল পাওয়া যায়।
মসজিদের উপরে একটি বিশালাকার গম্বুজ রয়েছে এবং এখানকার পূর্বদিকের দেয়ালে টেরাকোটার কাজ ছাড়াও দেয়ালের উপরে, কলামে এবং মিনি মিনারে সে আমলের ব্যয়বহুল নকশার কাজ রয়েছে।
ছবির জন্য এখানে ক্লিক করুন http://www.panoramio.com/photo/91597929
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/91597914
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[name] => Kutub Shahi Masjid
[post_id] => 5084
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Name of the mosque is Kutub Shahi Mosque (কুতুব শাহী মসজিদ). This is basically a five dome mosque. One larger dome is at the center, and other four domes are near at the corner of the mosque. This is a rectangular shaped mosque and typical smaller one. That's why all the domes atop are jammed together.
Central dome of the Kutub Shah Mosque (কুতুব শাহী মসজিদ) is slightly semi spherical shaped and the other four domes are the shape of oval (half of the oval). Each of the domes are having upside down like flowering ornate at the top.
There is a doubt available between the scholars regarding the building period of the mosque. Some believe its 16th century and some believe it’s from 17th century. Whatever it is, the mosque was built by a saint named Kutub Shah (কুতুব শাহ), and the name of the mosque is taken after him. His grave is located exactly beside the mosque along with other of his companions (locals’ assumption).
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